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The foreign exchange supplied by the Central Bank of Nigeria for the importation of food products into Nigeria rose by 23.81 per cent to $1.04bn in the first half of this year, compared to the same period of 2020. Food imports gobbled up $840.18m in H1 2020, down from $1.02bn in the same period a year earlier, according to the CBN data on sectoral utilisation for transactions valid for forex. […]

Dickson Oghenebrume and Sally Abaka, Ese Brume’s parents, have dedicated the athlete’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic long jump bronze medal to Amaju Pinnick, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, and the incumbent and immediate past Governors of Delta State. Speaking after the long jumper clinched the bronze medal in the long jump finals, Brume’s father revealed that he and his wife called Pinnick to thank him for the role he played […]

Army to embark on free medical outreach programme as COAS plans low- key Army Day Celebration   The Nigerian Army has stated its readiness to embark on medical outreach programme beginning from Monday July 5th, 2021 during which inhabitants of some selected communities around the country will benefit from free medical services.   The Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya disclosed this while briefing Defence Correspondents at the […]

Communities along the Abuja-Lokoja Highway have blamed indigenous contractors and federal agencies for the slow pace of construction work on the 196-kilometre road project put at N42.3billion at inception 18 July, 2006. The communities lamented the lingering deplorable condition of the road and the snail-speed approach to the project awarded by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration with a 30-month completion span. They said the project had not only become a death-trap […]

Zamfara State has the highest number of the poor and vulnerable people in Nigeria, with a record of 3,836,484 people from 825,337 households, according to data from the National Social Registry. The Communications Manager of the National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office, Joe Abuku, made the data available through email in response to enquiries made by our correspondent. NASSCO was established in 2016 through a partnership between the Federal Government and […]

The House of Representatives is considering barring staff members of banks and other financial institutions from operating accounts outside the shores of Nigeria. Their spouses and children may also be mandated to declare their assets when a bill presently at the House becomes law. This was contained in the ‘Bank Employees, Etc., (Declaration of Assets)(Amendment) Bill 2021’, which is awaiting second reading. The legislation was titled ‘A Bill for an […]

The National Broadcasting Commission has directed all broadcast stations in the country to suspend the patronage of Twitter. The NBC said the decision followed the suspension of Twitter operations in Nigeria by the Federal Government over the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining the corporate existence of Nigeria. The Commission directed the broadcast stations to “de-install Twitter handles and desist from using Twitter as […]